Growingup Stories

Jessie, along with her six year old nephew, Davy, has always had a turbulent life. She and her sister, Holly, who was Davy's mother, are members of a well-known outlaw family in the year of 1872. Holly has acted as a mother to Jessie, growing up, as their mother died early in Jessie's life. Their father is one of the members of the Banks gang, though they haven't seen him in years. Also members of the gang are several cousins, an uncle, and various other non-related men. Holly became pregnant at an early age from one of the gang members, and Davy is her child. Holly tried to raise Jessie and also Davy away from the gang's influence. But the gang members will occasionally come to the small farm where they live and take supplies or take a rest from being pursued by law. Around a year and a half earlier, Holly met a man. Devlin Riley. Devlin is a Texas Ranger. He p and Holly fall in love and marry, and Holly has a baby, Owen. For the period of time that Devlin is a part of their lives, there is some stability for Holly and Jessie. He provides for them financially, and when the family gang of outlaws find out she is married to a lawman, they keep their distance for a while. Holly contacts influenza and dies. This story takes place after that, when baby Owen is about seven months old.

Belonging was only the beginning. Josephine St. Claire thought the hardest part of her journey was adjusting to life without her mother, life with the family she was never meant to know. But as she settles into their world, guarded secrets and buried truths beg to come to surface. [Book Two in The Turning Seasons Series]

What if Neo didn't wake up in those ruins in the My Hero Academia dimension (refer to ERROR MHA), but lay dormant within an ancient, hidden energon mine in Jasper? Somehow finding himself between two factions fighting over it, no less. And eventually, over him, too! What's an Autobot? A Decepticon? What was Cybertron? Who was he, and why do others want him on their side?

Genny and Tim Bradford spent their entire childhoods living next door to Lucy Chen. As neighbors and best friends, they grew and changed together. However, there was one constant despite all the change: no matter how much time had past, or how different their lives had become, or even how much Lucy tried to fight it, she had feelings for Tim, and through the years, those feelings grew from a little crush to overwhelming love. Title is lyrics from "Smash Into You" by Beyoncé.

Maddie Moore's life seems ordinary on the outside looking in, but with a deceased mother, estranged father, and seven over-protective older brothers, Maddie is sure that life can't get any more complicated. Life proves her wrong when she starts high school, and she learns that the real complications are only just beginning. Follow along on Maddie's journey and all the tears, laughter, and lessons that growing up brings.

Salvatore Smith meets a woman with whom he shared few nights after loosing his wife. It was 12 years ago, she was way younger than him, from a different country. He is a powerful man, Don of the American Mafia, leading his businesses with his 6 sons. What will happen when they find out that from that a little girl was born from that short relationship? -What is this thing? -She is your sister... -I guess you drank too much last night, we don't have a sister! -Now you have one...

✨🍂 𝒦𝒾𝓈𝒾 𝒿𝒶𝒽𝒶𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝒽 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝒽𝑒𝑔𝒶 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝓈𝓊𝓇𝒾 𝓌𝒶𝓁𝒶 𝓉𝓊𝓂𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓆 𝓂𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓇 𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓇 𝒹𝒽𝒶𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒽𝒶𝓉𝒶 𝒻𝒾𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝒽 𝓇𝒶𝒽𝒶 𝒽𝓊 🤍🕰️ 𓆩🦋𓆪 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓎𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓀... 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 ✨ where love didn't knock it drifted in like a soft spell. 𓂃🍃 𝒹𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓎 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓈𝓀𝒾𝑒𝓈, and hearts that never learned how to leave each other. 🕯️ because some love stories don't end... they simply turn into folklore 🤍 Blood made them family. Love made them stay. 🤍 📜In a house full of chaos, loud arguments, midnight comfort talks, stolen desserts, overprotective boys, dramatic family dinners, sleepy cuddles, healing hearts, and love that never needed permission to exist... they found something stronger than blood itself. 🌸💫This isn't just a romance. It's about the people who become home. 🦋💫The ones who hold your shaking hands in silence. The ones who fight the world for you, annoy you endlessly, steal your fries, sit outside your door after an argument, and still choose you every single day. ❄️🤍A story where love is soft, messy, possessive, comforting, chaotic, and unconditional all at once. Where the boys look dangerous but love like poetry. Where the girls carry storms in their hearts yet somehow become everyone's peace. ☃️Because sometimes soul ties are stronger than surnames. And sometimes the family you choose loves you louder than the one you were born into. 🥀

𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐨𝐦𝐢 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐱 𝗁𝖺𝗌 𝖺𝗅𝗐𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝗍𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗈𝗎𝗋𝗍𝖾𝖾𝗇－𝗒𝖾𝖺𝗋－𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝖬𝗂𝖼𝗁𝖺𝖾𝗅 𝖩𝖺𝖼𝗄𝗌𝗈𝗇 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾 𝖺 𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗍𝗅𝖾 𝖻𝗋𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋． 𝖡𝗎𝗍 𝗐𝗁𝗂𝗅𝖾 𝖭𝖺𝗈𝗆𝗂 𝗂𝗌 𝖻𝗎𝗌𝗒 𝖿𝗂𝗀𝗎𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝗀𝗋𝖺𝖽𝗎𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇， 𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗌， 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝖿𝗎𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾， 𝖬𝗂𝖼𝗁𝖺𝖾𝗅 𝖼𝖺𝗇'𝗍 𝗌𝖾𝖾𝗆 𝗍𝗈 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗉 𝗍𝗋𝗒𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗈 𝗂𝗆𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖼𝗈𝗈𝗅𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅 𝗁𝖾'𝗌 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋 𝗆𝖾𝗍． 𝖠 𝗌𝗐𝖾𝖾𝗍 𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀－𝗈𝖿－𝖺𝗀𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗒 𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉， 𝗀𝗋𝗈𝗐𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗎𝗉， 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖺 𝖼𝗋𝗎𝗌𝗁 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝗇𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋 𝗆𝖾𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝗍𝗈 𝖻𝖾．

They are born of the wind, and die as the wind. Through the seasons, Vain begins to learn the meaning of the cycle of life. - Spin-off of "The Cozy Sun" Inspired by "Christopher Tin - Mado Kara Mieru"

The ocean is sick. Esmé is sicker. And somewhere between dreams and waking, something is stealing crowns. Esmé is living with a severe bone condition that draws her life inward, while everything around her quietly unravels. Friends drift without goodbye. Her father returns after five years of silence, present but unreachable, as if distance has become a second language neither of them knows how to unlearn. In Pelagia, grief does not announce itself. It accumulates, like salt in the throat, like weather that refuses to pass. The Sea is spoken of as though it remembers, as though it keeps what the town cannot hold. Then Luna arrives with a wish. Not a cure, not a repair, but something that bends the edges of what is possible. Something that might change the Sea itself, though nothing in Pelagia comes without cost. And still, something is stealing crowns. A story about grief, growing up too fast, and learning how to love a world that might never be saved.

Meera is a girl who feels deeply about everything. In a world where people come and go, getting attached easily only makes life harder. Through broken relationships, unspoken words, childhood memories, and wounds that never seemed to heal completely, Meera tries to find her place in a world that often feels too heavy for her heart. But this is not just a story about pain. It is a story about love, loss, growing up, and the people who leave marks on us long after they are gone. Will Meera finally find the forever she has always longed for?

꧁Whenever you wake from a dream you can't remember much, the forgotten part arrives at Platform Nine. The station stretches forever. Suitcases contain abandoned futures. Announcements speak in languages nobody knows. Children board trains and come back older. · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · · A ghostly, jaded girl starts finding letters addressed to her from someone waiting at the final platform.꧂

We promised to always be best friends... but no one said anything about falling in love.

Born on a cold December night in Banaras, I was not a hero, a celebrity, or someone destined for greatness. I was simply an ordinary girl, growing up one day at a time. Still Becoming is a memoir-inspired journey through childhood, family, friendships, dreams, mistakes, heartbreaks, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. This is not a story about having all the answers. It is a story about finding them. One chapter at a time.

No one notices when memories disappear. Not at first. A missing conversation. A forgotten birthday. A face that feels strangely familiar. Then entire lives begin slipping through the cracks. Vespera Vale has spent years pretending the voices in her head are only memories. Now they're speaking back. Someone is writing over the city. Someone remembers the version of her that no longer exists. And someone has been waiting for her to remember first. Some stories are written in ink. Others... are written in blood.

Clarke disappeared without saying goodbye. Which is inconvenient, because he was Penny's best friend for twenty years. Now she's left juggling an after-school program full of brutally honest kids, an older sister who occasionally turns into a flesh-eating monster, and the uncomfortable realization that life has the audacity to keep moving. As Penny slowly builds unexpected friendships and learns that not everyone disappears, she begins to wonder if healing has less to do with finding the people you've lost... and more to do with noticing the ones who never left. A funny, heartfelt story about grief, monsters, and ordinary Tuesdays.

World Famous Failure in Love Some people fall in love once. Some fall twice. I made a habit of it. From awkward teenage crushes and innocent first love to heartbreaks, wrong timings, almost relationships, and the people who changed me forever-this is the story of my life. At twenty-eight, I have everything I once dreamed of. A successful career. A passport full of stamps. A life built far away from home. Then, on a quiet Wednesday in Berlin, a wedding invitation arrives. The bride's name is Sakshi. The girl I haven't seen in twelve years. The girl who unknowingly became the beginning of every love story that followed. As old memories come rushing back, I'm forced to relive every chapter of my life-from classrooms and college corridors to adulthood-where I kept believing, "Maybe this time it'll last." It never did. This isn't the story of one heartbreak. It's the story of every time I thought I had found love. And every time I learned how to let it go. Maybe I'm just... World Famous Failure in Love.

Lena has always been good at following the plan. Graduate early. Pick the sensible school. Stay close to home. Build the kind of life people point to and call successful. But life has a way of changing shape before you're ready for it. Between unopened acceptance letters, quiet expectations, first choices that feel impossible, and the people who teach us there is more than one way to live, Lena begins to question whether becoming an adult means becoming who everyone expected-or becoming someone she chooses. This is a story about growing up, grief, love in all its forms, and learning that sometimes the people who change your life aren't always the ones who stay.

A Lifetime of Becoming is a story about dreams - the kind that begin quietly in small places and slowly grow bigger than fear, distance, or failure. It follows the life of a girl who leaves behind the only world she has ever known to chase a future she once thought was impossible. Bright, kind, and endlessly giving, she steps into adulthood carrying dreams larger than herself, believing hard work and hope are enough to survive the world. But life does not move in straight lines. Set against the changing seasons of youth and adulthood in South Korea, A Lifetime of Becoming is an emotional journey about hope, identity, love, loss, and the quiet strength it takes to keep moving forward even when life turns out nothing like you imagined.

Annie Sawchuk works for the family business started by her grandmother, Olga. With supernatural abilities, she hunts vampires and werewolves (for a reasonable fee). She's falling in love with Edward Blue, who disposes of the night creatures she kills (a disgusting but essential job), and is yearning to grow beyond her childhood home, where she still lives as a twenty-something. An impeccably dressed and fiendishly handsome vampire, Vesper van Goethe, comes into her life claiming to be her grandmother's old love. Family history, secrets, love, and tragedy come to light and as Easter approaches, Annie learns of a unprecedented gathering of vampires and their monstrous sanguisuga kin. With the help of new friends, her grandmother and her mother, there is a chance to go on the largest hunt ever. It's sure to be a bloodbath. Annie can't wait.